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GOVERNMENT INTEREST IN BREEDING Gratifying to See Awakening of This Country to Necessity of Encouraging a Great Industry It is gratifying to all those patriotic citizens who are interested in the improvement of the breed of horses the development of our resources and a para ¬ mount defense against future enemies to note the government of this country has at last awakened to the necessity of securing celebrated thorough ¬ bred race winners to be used as stallions on the breeding farms controlled by the governnient to produce highclass remounts for our cavalry writes Charles E Brossmaii BrossmaiiAfter After the war was declared the aggressive spirit of the Americans surprised the world obstacles were ovdrcome tiiat seemed almost nnmrmountabie Our army was mobilized tpiined equipped and transported across the Atlantic in so short a time that it seemed impossible to the people of the old countries and they could hardly realize that it was true when on that memorable day General Pershing sainted and said Lafayette we are here hereWe We have shown that we can invent manufacture the equipments of war train an army all in record time and our soldiers hive demonstrated that they have the best fighting spirit of any in the world but we cannot breed good cavalry horses faster than nature will allow It takes five years at least to produce a desirable animal therefore it is well to improve the breed in time of peace then if war never comes this country will be the gainer in a better class of horses As conducted before the war by the Bureau of Animal Industry the government breeding farms for horses were jokes and there was never any intelligent syste ¬ matic effort made to produce a type that would be suitable or desirable for an American boy to ride in the country of the enemy enemyFrance France has always been particular and discrim ¬ inating in securing the best thoroughbred blood obtainable from all over the world and some of the brightest pages in her history are illuminated by the heroic deeds of her cavalry cavalryThe The last charge of Old Guard at Waterloo where one of the finest bodies of horsemen that ever galloped over a field of battle started to its doom in a forlorn hope went to their fate like heroes shouting defiantly as they charged The Old Guard dies but never surrenders In 1795 the French cavalry under General Charles Piehegru actually performed the unique exploit of capturing a Dutch fleet in the Zuyder Zee and at that time Holland was second only to England as a great maritime and naval itower It should be added however that the ships were frozen in the ice nor lias history recorded a stranger spectacle than the French Hussars galloping across the ice field and assailing the tremendous but immovable ships of the Dutch DutchWhen When the moral Bolsheviki and the wouldbe reformers in this country were doiuj everything in tlielr power to destroy all thoroughbred interests race tracks breeding farms stallions and brood mares many of our wealthy owners removed their breeding plants tit the congenial country of France FranceThere There they were received with open arms cor diallv hospitably and everything possible was done bv that government to make the sojourn pleasant and profitable Among the number of prominent American owners was the late II It Diirvea who established the Haras du Gazon Farm in Nor ¬ mandy France at the head of which lit placed the Americanbred stallion Irish Lad a great stake winner in this country and a successful sire with a select number of Americanbred mares maresAmerica America with its climate soil feel and produc ¬ tiveness ought not to be second to any country or nation on the face of the globe when it comes to producing any kind of live stock
